Legacy is FamilySearch Certified

FamilySearch awards Legacy with official certification

SURPRISE, Arizona – September 1, 2009 – Millennia Corporation today announced that its family tree software, Legacy Family Tree, has received official certification from FamilySearch.

Users of Legacy will soon be able to synchronize with, backup, and publish their information to FamilySearch’s Family Tree. These capabilities will be included in Legacy’s Standard (free) and Deluxe Editions. It will also soon provide support for LDS members including ordinance reservation and requests.

“We are excited to provide these new tools for the genealogy community,” said Dave Berdan, president of Millennia Corporation. “Our goal with our FamilySearch integration software was to make it drop-dead simple for brand new users to get started with their family history but also robust enough that it would appeal to advanced researchers. We think we have succeeded in both areas.”

Legacy's new tools help you and your family set goals, plan, and organize projects for working with your family trees in FamilySearch. A simple step-by-step workflow guides your family with constant monitoring of your progress and feedback measured against your goals. As family members collaborate to clean up and grow their trees, Legacy will help each family member share so that the whole family can enjoy their family tree.

Availability
Anyone with access to http://new.familysearch.org will be able to utilize Legacy’s new integration software. Initially, only members of the LDS church have access until the FamilySearch system is thoroughly tested. Later, FamilySearch will be open to the public.

Legacy’s new FamilySearch software will be available before the end of the year – as a free update to both the Standard and Deluxe editions of Legacy 7.

“Legacy currently has “Access” certification”, explained project manager, Geoff Rasmussen, “meaning it will automatically search and read information from new.familysearch.org and compare it side-by-side with the user's Legacy data. Once it receives Sync and Update certifications, it will be released to the public. We hope to have it in our customers’ ‘virtual hands’ very soon. Watch or subscribe to our blog at http://www.legacynews.typepad.com for the official announcements.”

Free Standard Edition Available
Anyone can download the free, standard edition of Legacy from http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com. The standard edition lets a person add/edit information, create reports, share information and much more with no time limitations. And soon, all of the FamilySearch integration tools will be included – for free.

Users of other genealogy software applications can easily experiment with their own data in Legacy 7. Legacy can directly import data from Ancestral Quest and PAF, as well as data in a GEDCOM format.

About Millennia Corporation
Millennia Corporation is located in Surprise, Arizona. The company strives to provide top-quality genealogy software so people can record and track their family history. It is also the publisher of Legacy News, an online newsletter bringing genealogists tips and tricks about genealogy (http://www.legacynews.typepad.com). For additional information on Millennia or the products they offer visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com.

Comments

[Ros Haywood]

This is wonderful news!

This is now my 'genealogical happy dance' moment!

[C. Bodette]

I do hope this new service will include a warning that this type of site should be used with caution and a clear understanding of what is being offered. For an example please see the following article and posted comments....http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2009/08/dangerous-temptations-in-genealogical-research.html

[Douglas D. Deal]

Legacy keeps getting bigger and better all the time. I am so glad that I have told all my students to always use Legacy. Thank you Legacy for sending those "CD"
for the students. Thank you again. And thank those on Lagacy that help to make it bigger and Better ever year. Doug.

[GenQueen]

Fantastic news! I've been waiting and waiting! I can hardly wait until our LUG starts back up in September to share the news.

[Donna J Schmidt]

I know I am asking a dumb question but what is familySearch certification. LDS library has a lot of my file already and then mixed it up with someone else information. It does not contain a bit of documention in any of their files that I have found.

Now if I could get the St Peters Evangical Lutheran Church films I had at my local LDS family Center which has closed put on a UBS flash drive as picture file,that would be exciting news. I paid to have them so they would always be there and could take my time translating from German to English.

Donna